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HWL Ebsworth faces OAIC investigation over data breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-02-21 11:58 am By Sam Matthews

The Australian Information Commissioner has launched an investigation into the personal information handling practices of law firm HWL Ebsworth following a cyberattack that saw the firmā€™s data dumped on the dark web.Ā 

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DVA may face class action for sharing veterans’ sensitive medical data
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2024-02-13 5:22 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs is facing a class action investigation for allegedly sharing the sensitive medical and personal data of 300,000 veterans and their families without authorisation.

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Sensitive data of 223,000 people stolen in ACL data breach: OAIC
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-11-28 11:17 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

‘Serious and systemic’ failures in Australian Clinical Labs’ cyber framework left the pathology services provider vulnerable to a cyberattack that exposed the sensitive health data of more than 223,000 people, including tests for fertility and sexually transmitted diseases, according to the OAIC.

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OAIC takes Australian Clinical Labs to court over data breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-11-03 3:14 pm By Cindy Cameronne

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has brought civil penalty proceedings accusing pathology services provider Australian Clinical Labs of failing to take steps to prevent a February 2022 data breach that affected millions of patients.

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Latitude customer seeks to join tech giants to $1M suit over data breach
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-09-27 10:52 pm By Cindy Cameronne

A customer of non-bank lender Latitude Financial has filed a bid to join tech giants DXC Technology and Crowdstrike to her lawsuit claiming over $1 million in compensation from a cyberattack that compromised 14 million customer records.

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Compensation for Privacy Act breaches requires class members to prove loss: judge
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-09-18 4:35 pm By Sam Matthews

Victims of privacy breaches must demonstrate actual loss and damage to be eligible for compensation, according to a judge who has given asylum seekers who secured a ruling from the Privacy Commissioner a second chance at proving loss from theĀ public disclosure of their personal information.

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OAIC taken to court in battle to run Optus class action-style complaint
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-09-14 11:13 pm By Sam Matthews

The OAIC has been dragged to court by the law firm that filed a class action-style complaint over the massive Optus data breach, after the privacy commissioner chose a competing representative complaint to move forward.

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Facial recognition platform Clearview broke privacy laws by scraping images, AAT says
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-05-10 2:35 pm By Sam Matthews

US facial recognition company Clearview breached Australian privacy laws by trawling the web for photos of Australians for use by law enforcement agencies, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal has found.

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Medibank hit with shareholder class action over cyberattack
Class Actions 2023-03-29 11:54 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Australia’s largest private health insurer Medibank has been hit with a shareholder class action in the wake of a massive cyberattack that left the data of 10 million customers exposed.

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High Court revokes special leave in Facebook’s challenge to data breach case
Privacy & Cybersecurity 2023-03-07 11:33 pm By Christine Caulfield

The High Court has revoked special leave to Facebook to challenge a case by the privacy commissioner, finding that the social media giant’s grounds of appeal no longer involved issues of public importance.

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